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Ask a QuestionFor those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another -
(For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow."
Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly;
I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
"To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
"Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."
Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did.
Then, as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.